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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Maya Yang

Texas woman allegedly tried to drown Palestinian-American girl, aged 3

US police car with lights on
Police in Euless, Texas, were told by witnesses that ‘a woman who was very intoxicated had tried to drown a child and argued with the child’s mother’. Photograph: Westend61/Getty Images

The US’s largest Muslim civil liberties and advocacy organization is calling for hate crime charges to be filed against a Texas woman accused of trying to drown a three-year-old Palestinian-American girl while saying that the child’s mother wasn’t really American.

For now, the suspect in the case has been booked on counts of attempted murder and injury to a child.

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